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PRESENT POSITION: Project manager

KEY QUALIFICATIONS: SD tools (environmental assessment and environmental review, environmental risk assessment and management, integrated project appraisal)

LANGUAGES SKILLS: Russian (native), English - fluent.
EDUCATION:
Institutions: Lomonosov Moscow State University, School of Geography, Moscow Russia. Chair of Landscape Geochemistry and Soil Geography.
Date: from - to December 2002 - present
Degree(s) or diploma(s): Doctorate Research on the environmental risk assessment in the EIA for large-scale development projects in Russia
Institutions: Central European University (CEU), Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Budapest, Hungary
Date: from - to September 2001 - July 2002
Degree(s) or diploma(s): MSc in Environmental Sciences and Policy.
Thesis: "Use of risk assessment in environmental impact assessment for projects with significant health implications: case studies of UK waste incineration developments"
Institutions: Ulyanovsk branch of Lomovosov Moscow State University (Ulyanovsk State University), Ulyanovsk, Russia. School of Environmental Sciences, Chair of Applied and Landscape Ecology
Date: from - to August 1995 - June 2000
Degree(s) or diploma(s): Honours diploma in Ecology. Thesis: "Specific behaviour of aluminium and iron of diatomite (Inzenskoe deposit) under modelled environmental conditions"
Institutions: Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russia. Department of Linguistics. Training Program "The Interpreter in the Field of Professional Communication".
Date: from - to October 1997 - June 2000
Degree(s) or diploma(s): Professional diploma in Specialised Translation (environmental sciences). QUALIFICATION AWARDED: Translator (foreign language - English).
COMPUTER SKILLS: Advanced user.

• MS Windows; IBM Microsoft Office for Windows 95, 97, 2000 (Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS), Novell, GroupWise
• Internet (WWW, E-mail systems, web page creation).
• OCR programs, Adobe Photoshop.
• Hardware: PC, Apple Macintosh.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Date: from - to May 2003
Location Moscow, Russia
Company World Bank, Moscow Office
Position Technical Assistant
Description Assistance in preparing the final report of a pilot study to assess the capacity of Russia's EA System "How Well is Environmental Assessment Working in Russia"
Date: from - to September 2002 - present
Location Moscow, Russia
Company Environmental Non-Governmental Organization Ecoline / Ecoline EA Center
Position Project manager with Ecoline-EA Center
Description Administration of ongoing projects of Ecoline EA Center;
Participation in OVOS (EIA) of proposed economic developments;
Preparation of draft normative documents on developing Russian environmental assessment and management system (e.g. Guidelines on SER of bills for the Russian Federation, Guidelines on EIA for the Arkhangelsk Region);
Fundraising: search for possible sources for not-for-profit funding, developing tender documents for projects on environmental management at the local level, SEA/strategic planning development in Russia, public participation in EIA for waste treatment facilities.
Drafting and editing of EA Center publications on environmental assessment and management, SEA/strategic planning, public participation in EIA.
Assistance in planning and organizing special events (seminars, workshops).
Date: from - to February 2001 - June 2001
Location Ulyanovsk, Russia
Company Ulyanovsk State University, Chair of Human Ecology and Genetics.
Position Teaching assistant
Description Development of a practical course on Biodiversity for three-year students, teaching at seminars
Date: from - to August 2000 - June 2001
Location Ulyanovsk, Russia
Company Ulyanovsk State University, Chair of Human Ecology and Genetics.
Position Senior laboratory assistant
Description Office management: keeping correspondence in Russian and English, developing and editing study materials, assisting to professors at lectures and seminars

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Demidova O. 2002. Use of risk assessment in environmental impact assessment for projects with significant health implications: case studies of UK waste incineration developments. MSc thesis. Central European University, Budapest. (In English)

Demidova, O. and Cherp, A. 2002. Use of risk assessment for addressing human health implications in EIAs of selected UK waste incineration projects. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Ecological Chemistry, October 11-12, Chisinau, Moldova, 2002. Chisinau: MRDA, 2002. P. 282-284 (in English).

Khotuleva, M., Shramko, I., Pavlov, N., Kalinkin, E., Demidova, O., Volostnov, D., Zotikova, D., and Blokhin, S. 2003. Guidelines on EIA of Proposed Developments for the Arkhangelsk Region. Moscow: SEU, 2003 (in Russian).

Demidova, O., Bashkin, V. 2004. Application of critical load and level approach for assessment of ecosystem risks in EIA: an EA practitioner's approach. Proceedings of the 6th Subregional Meeting On Effect-Oriented Activities in the Countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe relevant to UN УСУ Convention of LRTAP, Moscow-Puschino, Russia, September 16-18, 2004. Moscow: Institute for Urban Ecology. (in English)

Demidova, O., Cherp, A. 2005. Risk Assessment for Improved Treatment of Health Considerations in EIA. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 25(4). p 411-429. (in English).
demidova@policy.hu